Saturday, December 7, 2013

The End of the World Means It's Time for Soup

It's SO dang cold! Is it the end of the world?

I thought the entire world was frozen this morning because my smart phone listed Brisbane, Australia and a city in Africa at single digit degrees. I thought about the end of time and mammoths and ice ages (not the movie series) and people scavenging for food and territory wars over a gas station... My husband pointed out that my phone was on Celsius. Whatever. It's still cold!

It's a great day (or week) for some homemade soup. This is recipe from my upcoming e-book, tentatively titled Tales and Thoughts from a Contemporary Parent's Kitchen, which emphasizes cheap, filling food, out of whatever you have on hand.

Chicken Soup

When I cook this
with shredded lasagna noodles (which I had from frozen extras), my children
love this concoction. I am making it again today!

·2 cups or so of chicken broth

·¼ cup sliced carrots

·¼ cup diced celery

·¼ cup diced onion

·Dash salt

·Pinch of pepper

·Pinch of dill weed

·A toss of oregano powder

·Garlic powder

·Diced or shredded (leftover) chicken

·(Bay leaf)

·(Cayenne)

·(Cooked
or raw pasta; rice or minced potatoes)

Simmer your
collection together in a pot. This is a
great use of stock and leftover chicken and vegetable bits.

I have saved a "chicken butt" piece - I'm not sure if it is the butt but it looks like it may have been - which is in the pot right now, preparing for some homemade chicken stock before I complete the whole soup procedure.

Here now!

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I think it's more than a trend. I think it's a sensitivity to a food security crisis that we have in our world. I don't like waste, particularly food waste. It's horrific that statistics suggest we have enough food to diminish world food insecurity, but due to politics, infrastructure issues and corporate policies, food isn't getting onto the tables of our neediest people. Whenever possible, I try to donate extra food and/or canned goods to our local meals program. If you haven't thought about it, that's okay, but maybe think about it now, and see if you, too, can give back to your local community's food programs. Just a little bit is still helpful.